Jennifer Schuessler
NY Times Cancels Chaucer? Canterbury Tales' ‘Systematic Rape Culture'
The front page of Saturday’s New York Times carried a surprisingly arcane story regarding the settling of an old “rape” controversy concerning Geoffrey Chaucer, the renowned 14th century writer of The Canterbury Tales: “Chaucer the Rapist? Newly Discovered Documents Suggest Not.” Culture reporter Jennifer Schuessler reluctantly framed the vindication of this Dead…